"We say, 'once you’re TYC, you’re always TYC.'"
Friday night will see the culmination of an artistic reunion on an Orlando Shakes stage when The Young Company presents Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
For director Keith Traver, it’s a full-circle moment. He was a participant in The Young Company back in 2002.
“Bringing this community from the past 30 years back together has been really cool,” he said.
Traver has organized this one-night-only, pay-what-you-will benefit performance for Orlando Shakes’ education department, which oversees The Young Company, a program that introduces high school actors to the world of professional theater. It’s one of the nonprofit theater’s longest-running programs, established in 1992, and today is run in conjunction with the W. Daniel Mills Apprentice Program. Young people selected for the Mills apprenticeship work on The Young Company’s annual production.
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